How to Use exorcism in a Sentence

exorcism

noun

• The 3-year-old child involved in the exorcism died on Sept. 24.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 13 May 2022
• Need an exorcism at your church in order to take the shine off the hot, young priest, for instance?
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 14 June 2019
• Her friends take her to a healer for an exorcism, which doesn’t work.
  — Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
• John Black, who was a man of the cloth at the time, had to perform an emergency exorcism.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• The Catholic church is not ceding the practice of exorcism to these other faiths.
  — David Crary, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
• And the only exorcism that works will be a return to the playoffs and winning some rounds.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• When that film came out in 1973, requests for exorcisms surged.
  — Joseph P. Laycock, Fortune, 4 May 2023
• But an exorcism turns into a tragedy and Nour has to face a wave of violence that could cost their lives.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• Here is a kind of exorcism, conjuring demons present and past.
  — Peter Van Agtmael, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
• But this doesn’t need to feel like a demon exorcism one bit, Scorpio.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2016
• The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• Still, demand for exorcism in the United States and around the world has never been higher.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Balsewicz once had an exorcism performed at the house and once had a witch perform a ritual there to rid the place of demons, Wilmouth said.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
• Lasso stages an exorcism to lift a curse on AFC Richmond.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 14 July 2021
• Father Roberts must make a decision to get help for Lucy from the church, or perform his own exorcism on her against the church’s will.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
• This was pretty good at that, until the end, which was messed up with too much violence and a hokey exorcism theme.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2021
• At Uptown restaurant Cavan, things got so bad that the owners called in a priest to perform an exorcism on the house.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• In the film's first trailer, Friedkin says Italian priest Gabriele Amorth invited him to sit in on an exorcism and film the process.
  — Emily Gaudette, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2018
• When Katherine snaps one of her restraints during her exorcism, David jumps in to help the priests praying over her.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
• Stuart for sure needs an exorcism — there is a demon afoot.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 June 2024
• One of the screenwriters said that exorcism movies are like bullfights.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
• Horace wants a demon to save him from a church that itself uses exorcism to cast out evil.
  — Dannye Romine Powell, charlotteobserver, 18 Aug. 2017
• Burch said it is not proven that Crow intended to perform an exorcism on the young woman.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2023
• Yeah, that song is really an exorcism of self-loathing.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2021
• Together, Judy and the Warrens secured an exorcism from the Catholic Church.
  — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 18 Oct. 2023
• Lynn quickly demands an exorcism for the home, but Kristen says no.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 July 2024
• As Chris explains to Victor, exorcism is about the people first and foremost.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The 2020 election has all the joy and drama of an exorcism. Exorcize your right to vote for or against your demons, both real and imagined.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 30 Oct. 2020
• Oh, and did his own exorcisms with holy water, candles and sandwich bread.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
• In recent years, exorcisms have been on the rise worldwide, including among evangelical Christians whose churches don’t have the strict hierarchies and rules of the Catholic Church.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024